[Hackage] #786: Bad errors from getProgramInvocationOutput and friends

8 Jan 2011

      #786: Bad errors from getProgramInvocationOutput and friends
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  Reporter:  igloo          |        Owner:      
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new 
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:      
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  HEAD
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:      
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:      
  Platform:                 |  
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 In http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4883 `ghc-cabal` gives an
 unhelpful error:
 {{{
 ghc-cabal:
 }}}

 This comes from `getProgramInvocationOutput`:
 {{{
   (output, errors, exitCode) <- rawSystemStdInOut verbosity
                                   path args
                                   Nothing utf8
   when (exitCode /= ExitSuccess) $
     die errors
 }}}
 as there was nothing on `stderr`. There are several similar functions in
 `Cabal`.

 Cabal ought to also say what it was running and what the error code was,
 without needing a verbosity flag to be given.

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Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/786
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